If they were just doing that and not contributing to the overall degradation of society, it would be fine.
Unfortunately the decriminalization increased problems across the board to fuel the drug habit.
Car theft, for example, had a dramatic increase, now with 110 reverted, we’re seeing those numbers go back down.
It’s a better rate than the 130+/16,000 that deflected under 110.
At this rate, by the time we’ve arrested 16,000 people to match those ticketed under 110, 933 people will have diverted. 7x more than diverted under 110.
Still not enough, but far better than decriminalization. A $100 ignorable ticket isn’t an incentive.
110 was a DISASTER and resulted in open air drug markets acting with impunity.
The PLAN was to make drug possession a $100 ticket and then waive it if they called a 1-800 number to ask about assistance.
NOTE: You didn’t have to actually GET assistance, all you had to do was call the number.
Out of 16,000 people ticketed under the program, less than 140 called the number.
Proponents of the measure argue that funding for assistance wasn’t effective, which is also absolutely true, but it doesn’t change the fact that 99+% of people ticketed never SOUGHT assistance.
Down 3,163.27 since inauguration.
“Velasquez was not a pharmacist at the store, and the store’s pharmacy itself was closed at the time of the shooting.”
Dude wasn’t even a pharmacist…
He also said Musk wasn’t in charge…
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-doge-white-house-layoffs-0fcdbb692717c63203ef971cb9807b35
Even with humans, there are good translations and bad translations.
Some of my favorite authors did not natively write in English and the translators did a stellar job of capturing the nuance of the original.
I can’t imagine AI giving anything other than a straight denotative translation. It would be readable, but with no soul.
Here’s a passage from Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s “The Shadow of the Wind” in Spanish (“La sombra del viento”):
“En una ocasión oí comentar a un cliente habitual en la librería de mi padre que pocas cosas marcan tanto a un lector como el primer libro que realmente se abre camino hasta su corazón. Aquellas primeras imágenes, el eco de esas palabras que creemos haber dejado atrás, nos acompañan toda la vida y esculpen un palacio en nuestra memoria al que, tarde o temprano —no importa cuántos libros leamos, cuántos mundos descubramos, cuánto aprendamos u olvidemos—, vamos a regresar. Para mí, esas páginas embrujadas siempre serán las que encontré entre los pasillos del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados.”
The English translation:
“Once, in my father’s bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later - no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget - we will return. For me those enchanted pages will always be the ones I found among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.”
Google translate:
“I once heard a regular customer at my father’s bookstore comment that few things leave a lasting impression on a reader as much as the first book that truly makes its way into their heart. Those first images, the echo of those words we think we’ve left behind, stay with us for a lifetime and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, how much we learn or forget—we will return. For me, those haunted pages will always be the ones I found in the aisles of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.”
You guys must hate it when I point this stuff out:
Man, I don’t even know…
Google says… 4/20.
Did you see some of the guys at the Oscars this year?
Colman Domingo SLAYED it.
https://www.instyle.com/best-dressed-men-oscars-2025-11689188
We can have sash belts now? Nobody told me!
Doubling down makes them even more entrenched, then they start believing CRAZIER things.
They actively reject the evidence and believe what they want to an even greater degree.
Kind of puts a pin in Nessie then, if we can find a small camera lost 55 years ago but not a giant animal.
Confronting them with the flaws in their thinking only makes them double down:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/darwins-subterranean-world/202401/why-do-people-double-down
We don’t allow editorialized headlines, please revert to the original or we’ll have to remove it.
“Milei, Musk and Maga: Is Argentina influencing the US?”
Edit 13 hours is enough time to make the change. Removing.
"banned from running for political office for five years after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds…
a four-year prison sentence with two years suspended, to be served under house arrest, and a €100,000 ($108,000) fine.
Her party, National Rally (RN), was ordered to pay €2 million in fines for the €4.1 million that it was accused of embezzling."
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